Christopher Kyba

Iain Couzin is Director of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and of the Excellence Cluster “Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour” at the University of Konstanz, Germany. His work aims to reveal the fundamental principles that underlie evolved collective behavior and he studies a wide range…

The nominating institution Empa about the breakthrough: Controlling the spread of COVID-19 is an urgent global challenge. Airborne respiratory droplets play a significant role in human-to-human transmission. Jing’s group quantifies the infection risk of COVID-19 by various transmission routes. He then develops highly accurate sensors for fast detection in the…

The nominating institution Max-Planck-Gesellschaft on the breakthrough: The quest for unusual materials, such as metallic hydrogen or room-temperature superconductors, has been going on for decades. Mikhail Eremets has pioneered high pressure experiments to induce such states, which brought about innovations in materials science, but also high-pressure technology. The group has…

The nominating institution Heidelberg Univerity on the breakthrough: The second catalogue of Gaia has let to a revolution on astronomy. Gaia’s astrometric measurements with microarcsecond accuracies, supplemented by high-precision photometry has changed our understanding of the evolution of our Milky Way. Practically all fields of astronomy have profited from the…

With the metal-organic framework nanomaterial, we are developing the most sensitive gas sensor to be used for breath analysis for early diagnosis and prevention of certain types of diseases. Tags: Engineering, Materials Science, Nanotechnology.

I plead for a design turn within the social sciences, in order to foster the renewal of empirical methods from an analytical towards a co-productive synthetic approach of knowledge production.

HOW INNOVATIVE HEALTHCARE FINANCE INCREASES TREATMENT COVERAGE FOR HIV, MALARIA AND TB Today’s major imbalances between the haves and the have-nots of the developing world and richer countries, together with the local and international conflicts of the 21st century, are pushing healthcare finance into a completely new era, where private…

My artistic processes have led me to recognize myself and all – symbolically – as a drop, as a center, as the very particle with which the universe has been created. It has been a constant exercise, a path of recollection and expansion. My trips as I usually call them,…

Uzair Masood installs wall-mounted vending machines that dispense menstrual hygiene products in female restrooms at public places and workplaces where women are involved, making menstrual hygiene management more convenient.